Antarctica

A huge ice shelf attached to Antarctica, known as Larsen C, may be about to break away.

A huge iceberg half the size of Greater London that broke from an Antarctic glacier last year is now heading for the open ocean, as this Nasa video shows.

The rescue of a team of 52 passengers who were left stranded in Antarctica over Christmas and the New Year began on Thursday, after a Chinese helicopter successfully landed on a makeshift helipad.

An Antarctic blizzard thwarts an Australian icebreaker’s attempt to rescue the MV Akademic Shokalskiy from sea ice. Seventy-four people have been trapped on it for a week.

The world’s largest ice sheet may be more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than previously thought, according to new research.

A last letter from the Antarctic explorer Captain Scott is being put on display, 101 years after he died.

Braving temperatures of minus 40 degrees, a small team of British researchers today starts drilling through three kilometres of the Antarctic in search of life-forms new to science.

Scientists are drilling two miles beneath Antarctica to reach a lake cut off from the world for 500,000 years. It could reveal clues to the earth’s past climate as well as new life forms yet unseen.

The planet’s polar ice sheets are melting three times faster than they were in the the 1990s, a 20-year study of satellite records says.

The granddaughter of one of Britain’s greatest tragic heroes, Captain Scott, makes an impassioned plea for people to remember his famous expedition as “more than a race to the South Pole”.

As two British teams recreate Scott and Amundsen’s legendary race to the South Pole, Channel 4 News records a special Christmas message from them.